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Return to the Marshes

Author : Gavin Young
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571280978
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Return to the Marshes written by Gavin Young and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the legendary traveller Wilfred Thesiger who first introduced Gavin Young to the Marshes of Iraq. Since then Young has been entranced by both the beauty of the Marshes and by the Marsh Arabs who inhabit them, a people whose lifestyle is almost unchanged from that of their predecessors, the Ancient Sumerians. On his return to the Marshes some years later Gavin Young found that the twentieth-century had rudely intruded on this lifestyle and that war was threatening to make the Marsh Arabs existence extinct. Return to the Marshes, first published in 1977, is at once a moving tribute to a unique way of life as well as a love story to a place and its people. 'A superbly written essay which combines warmth of personal tone, a good deal of easy historical scholarship and a talent for vivid description rarely found outside good fiction.' Jonathan Raban, Sunday Times

Eden Again

Author : Suzanne Alwash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988651432
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Eden Again written by Suzanne Alwash and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Salt Marshes

Author : Judith S Weis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813548519
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Salt Marshes written by Judith S Weis and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tall green grass. Subtle melodies of songbirds. Sharp whines of muskrats. Rustles of water running through the grasses. And at low tide, a pungent reminder of the treasures hidden beneath the surface.All are vital signs of the great salt marshes' natural resources. Now championed as critical habitats for plants, animals, and people because of the environmental service and protection they provide, these ecological wonders were once considered unproductive wastelands, home solely to mosquitoes and toxic waste, and mistreated for centuries by the human population. Exploring the fascinating biodiversity of these boggy wetlands, Salt Marshes offers readers a wealth of essential information about a variety of plants, fish, and animals, the importance of these habitats, consequences of human neglect and thoughtless development, and insight into how these wetlands recover. Judith S. Weis and Carol A. Butler shed ample light on the human impact, including chapters on physical and biological alterations, pollution, and remediation and recovery programs. In addition to a national and global perspective, the authors place special emphasis on coastal wetlands in the Atlantic and Gulf regions, as well as the San Francisco Bay Area, calling attention to their historical and economic legacies. Written in clear, easy-to-read language, Salt Marshes proves that the battles for preservation and conservation must continue, because threats to salt marshes ebb and flow like the water that runs through them.

The Prince of the Marshes

Author : Rory Stewart
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0156033003
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book The Prince of the Marshes written by Rory Stewart and published by HMH. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventurous diplomat’s “engrossing and often darkly humorous” memoir of working with Iraqis after the fall of Saddam Hussein(Publishers Weekly). In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next eleven months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war. The Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart’s year. As a participant he takes us inside the occupation and beyond the Green Zone, introducing us to a colorful cast of Iraqis and revealing the complexity and fragility of a society we struggle to understand. By turns funny and harrowing, moving and incisive, it amounts to a unique portrait of heroism and the tragedy that intervention inevitably courts in the modern age.

Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden

Author : Edward L. Ochsenschlager
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9781931707749
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden written by Edward L. Ochsenschlager and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork near a mound called al-Hiba, in the marshes of southern Iraq.

Iraq, Land of Two Rivers

Author : Gavin Young
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Iraq, Land of Two Rivers written by Gavin Young and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1980 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marvels in the Muck

Author : Doug Wechsler
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781590785881
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Marvels in the Muck written by Doug Wechsler and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The salt marsh is not so friendly to humans, but it's the only place to be for many creatures and plants. Breathtaking photographs and fascinating facts reveal the secrets of the salt marsh and celebrate this squishy and surprising habitat.

Where the Crawdads Sing

Author : Delia Owens
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735219109
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Where the Crawdads Sing written by Delia Owens and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE—The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 18 million copies sold, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature.” For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life—until the unthinkable happens. Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

Day in the Salt Marsh, A

Author : Kevin Kurtz
Publisher : Arbordale Publishing
ISBN 13 : 193435919X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Day in the Salt Marsh, A written by Kevin Kurtz and published by Arbordale Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces young readers to hourly changes in the salt marsh as the tide comes and goes, following the animals that have adapted to this ever-changing environment as they hunt for food or play in the sun.

The World of the Salt Marsh

Author : Charles Seabrook
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820343846
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The World of the Salt Marsh written by Charles Seabrook and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast—its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survival. Focusing on areas from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to Cape Canaveral, Florida, Charles Seabrook examines the ecological importance of the salt marsh, calling it “a biological factory without equal.” Twice-daily tides carry in a supply of nutrients that nourish vast meadows of spartina (Spartina alterniflora)—a crucial habitat for creatures ranging from tiny marine invertebrates to wading birds. The meadows provide vital nurseries for 80 percent of the seafood species, including oysters, crabs, shrimp, and a variety of finfish, and they are invaluable for storm protection, erosion prevention, and pollution filtration. Seabrook is also concerned with the plight of the people who make their living from the coast’s bounty and who carry on its unique culture. Among them are Charlie Phillips, a fishmonger whose livelihood is threatened by development in McIntosh County, Georgia, and Vera Manigault of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a basket maker of Gullah-Geechee descent, who says that the sweetgrass needed to make her culturally significant wares is becoming scarcer. For all of the biodiversity and cultural history of the salt marshes, many still view them as vast wastelands to be drained, diked, or “improved” for development into highways and subdivisions. If people can better understand and appreciate these ecosystems, Seabrook contends, they are more likely to join the growing chorus of scientists, conservationists, fishermen, and coastal visitors and residents calling for protection of these truly amazing places.

Death in the Marsh

Author : Tom Harris
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781559630696
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Death in the Marsh written by Tom Harris and published by Island Press. This book was released on 1991-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selenium, essential in microscopic doses, can be deadly in larger amounts. Death in the Marsh explains how federal irrigation projects have altered selenium's circulation in the environment, allowing it to accumulate in marshes, killing ecosystems and wildlife, and causing deformities in some animals.

When All the Lands Were Sea

Author : Tor Eigeland
Publisher : Olive Branch Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566569828
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book When All the Lands Were Sea written by Tor Eigeland and published by Olive Branch Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare and visually stunning images of a lost world. This remarkable collection of photographs, captured by internationally acclaimed photojournalist Tor Eigeland in 1967, offers unprecedented insight into the daily life of the Marsh Arabs of Iraq. These photographs illustrate the beauty of this unique environment—the marshlands between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers—and show a culture that existed practically unchanged for over 2,000 years. Some have even speculated that this place was the site of the original Garden of Eden. Under Saddam Hussein’s rule, vast areas of the marshlands were dammed and drained, causing catastrophic environmental damage and brutally forcing the marshes’ inhabitants to abandon their way of life. Now Tor Eigeland’s photographic journey stands as a monument, a rare record of a lost world and an ancient civilization. These precious photographs celebrate the people and culture of the marshlands and bring us back to a time and place where people lived in harmony with their environment. In the course of his long and distinguished career, Tor Eigeland has been published in such publications as Time-Life Books, Fortune, Newsweek, and Saudi Aramco World, to name but a few. He has collaborated on ten books for the National Geographic Society, and his assignments have taken him to some of the most remote corners of the globe. He now resides in the south of France.

The Salt Marsh

Author : Clare Carson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784080977
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Salt Marsh written by Clare Carson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Coyle's father lived in the shadows – an undercover agent among the spies and radicals of Cold War London. That world claimed his life, and Sam is haunted by his absence. He left nothing behind but his enemies; nothing to his daughter but his tradecraft and paranoia. Now, her boyfriend Luke is missing too – the one person she could trust, vanished into the fog on the Kentish coast. To find him, Sam must follow uncertain leads into a labyrinth of blind channels and shifting ground. She must navigate the treacherous expanse of the salt marsh... What people are saying about THE SALT MARSH: 'One of my favourite books, I loved it' 'A fast moving and gripping thriller you can't put down' 'I would urge you to read it if you like your crime multi-faceted with more of a literary leaning. Highly recommend' 'I can assure you it's haunting, and also very well written and evocative with a great sense of tension'

Tidal Marsh Restoration

Author : Charles T. Roman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597263535
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Tidal Marsh Restoration written by Charles T. Roman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Seasons of Cumberland Island

Author :
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820324975
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book The Seasons of Cumberland Island written by and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving through seasons punctuated by the comings and goings of such animals as the migratory birds that pass through in autumn and spring and the loggerhead turtles that nest in summer, more than one hundred photographs reveal the subtle but important effect of cyclical change on the ecosystems of Cumberland Island--the largest and most beloved of Georgia's barrier islands.

Desert, Marsh and Mountain

Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9780006548171
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Desert, Marsh and Mountain written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of Wilfred Thesiger's greatest journeys - in the Empty Quarter of Arabia, the marshes of Iraq, the mountains of the Hindu Kush and Kurdistan, and the Yemen - illustrated with Thesiger's own photographs.

Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes

Author : Charles Wendell Townsend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes written by Charles Wendell Townsend and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: